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    Jean-Claude Poitras

    In 1972 Poitras opened "Parenthèse," his first design studio. It was located in Old Montréal and was open to the public. He designed his first line in the early 1970s for manufacturers Beverini and Auckie Sanft and introduced a bridge label named BOF! in the late 1970s.

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    Jean Coulthard

    Jean Coulthard, OC, OBC, composer, teacher (born 10 February 1908 in Vancouver, BC; died 9 March 2000 in North Vancouver, BC). A pioneering woman composer and the first composer from Canada's West Coast to receive wide recognition, Jean Coulthard’s music is remarkable for its integrity, purity of expression and deeply emotional language.

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    Jean Blake Coulthard

    Jean (b Robinson) Coulthard, (Blake). Pianist, teacher, patron, b Moncton, NB, 13 Aug 1882, d Vancouver 16 Jul 1933. She studied piano with Charles Dennée at the New England Conservatory, Boston, and graduated in piano and singing.

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    Jean Coulthard

    Coulthard returned intermittently to compositional studies, working with Arthur Benjamin 1939-44, Bernard Wagenaar in 1944-5 and in 1949, and Gordon Jacob 1965-6 - the latter for advanced studies of orchestration.

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    Jean Cousineau

    Jean Bernard Cousineau, violinist, educator, composer (born 6 November 1937 in Montréal, QC; died 4 April 2013 in Montréal). Violinist Jean Cousineau was an influential music educator and composer.

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    Jean Coutu

    Jean Coutu, O.C., O.Q., pharmacist, entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 29 May 1927 in Montreal, Quebec). Jean Coutu is the founder of the Jean Coutu Group, a chain of pharmacies established in 1969 under the name Pharm-Escomptes Jean Coutu. He is also the cofounder of the Marcelle and Jean Coutu Foundation, a private charitable foundation. Jean Coutu has received many honours and awards recognizing both his career and his philanthropy.

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    Jean Cuthand Goodwill

    Jean Cuthand Goodwill, OC, nurse, public servant and Indigenous health and education advocate (born 14 August 1928 on the Poundmaker Cree Nation, SK; died 25 August 1997 in Regina, SK). Cuthand Goodwill was one of the first Indigenous registered nurses in Canada. In 1974, she cofounded Indian and Inuit Nurses of Canada (now known as the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association). She was a lifelong organizer, writer and educator who promoted First Nations health and culture.

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    Jean Dansereau

    Jean (b Hector) Dansereau. Pianist, teacher, b Verchères, near Montreal, 21 Apr 1891, d Yorktown Heights, NY, 2 Nov 1974; honorary PH D (Montreal) 1940. Born into a family of musicians, he received his first lessons from his mother, a cousin of Calixa Lavallée.

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    Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt, Baron de Saint-Just

    Their expedition had some success, but the colony was abandoned in 1607 after the revocation of its trading monopoly.

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    Jean de Brébeuf

    Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary, author of Relations des Jésuites, 1635, 1636 (born 25 March 1593 at Condé-sur-Vire, in France; died on 16 March 1649 at St. Ignace in Huronia).

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    Jean de Lauson

    Jean de Lauson, governor of New France 1651-56 (b c 1584; d at Paris, France 16 Feb 1666). Long before coming to the colony as governor, Lauson had enjoyed a close and lucrative connection with Canada.

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    Jean de Rimanoczy

    Jean de Rimanoczy. Violinist, conductor, b Vienna 4 Feb 1904, d Los Angeles 2 Mar 1958. Educated at the Academy of Music in Budapest under Jenö Hubay, Bartok, Kodály, and Leo Weiner, de Rimanoczy emigrated in 1925 to Canada, settling first in Winnipeg.

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    Jean-Denis Daulé

    Jean-Denis Daulé. Teacher, composer, amateur violinist, b Paris 18 Aug 1766, d L'Ancienne-Lorette, near Quebec City, 17 Nov 1852. Ordained as a priest in Paris in 1790, Father Daulé was forced by the French Revolution to take refuge for two years in England.

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    Jean-Denis Leduc

    Jean-Denis Leduc, artistic director (b at Valleyfield 12 Aug 1944). Although he directed some productions and appeared on stage until the mid eighties, his main contribution to Québécois theatre practice has, since 1975, undoubtedly been his work in artistic management at Théâtre de la Manufacture.

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    Jean Derome

    Jean Derome. Flutist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, singer (born 29 June 1955 in Montreal, QC). His studies 1972-5 at the St-Laurent Cegep with Michel Perrault (theory) and 1975-9 at the CMM with Jean-Paul Major (flute) and others coincided with the activities of his first important group, Nébu.

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